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The Make-Up were a band from Washington DC, consisting of Ian Svenonius on vocals, James Canty on guitar, Michelle Mae on bass and vocals and Steve Gamboa on drums.

The band formed in 1995, Svenonius, Canty and Gamboa having previously been in The Nation of Ulysses and the short-lived Cupid Car Club. They combined garage rock, soul and self-styled ‘liberation theology’ to make a new genre they called Gospel Yeh-Yeh. They released three studio LPs, two live LPs and a compilation of singles and B-sides. They split in 2000.

Svenonius and Mae are now part of Weird War and Svenonius has released a solo album under the pseudonym David Candy.

“Make-Up” also refers to a Japanese hard rock band formed by Nobuo Yamada (vocals), Hiroaki Matsuzawa (guitar), Yougo Kouno (keyboards), Yasuyoshi Ikeda (bass) and Yoshihiro Toyokawa (drums). They’re popular for many songs which accompanied the Saint Seiya anime series (especially the opening, Pegasus Fantasy).

The band now is no longer together, Nobuo and Yougo archived major sucess playing with the JAM Project.

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1	Born On The Floor full track	71
2	Save Yourself full track	66
3	Pow! To The People full track	45
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5	White Belts full track	44
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8	Hey! Orpheus full track	31
9	Walking On The Dune full track	30
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maulofsound wrote:
last month

scene creamers were better than weird war (same band, but whatever). nation of ulysses is my favorite of ian's bands, though... but save yourself was dope.

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FantasyBar wrote:
October 2008

saw them support fugazi at the glasgow barrowlands mid-ninties,,. great live.

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kamilnueve wrote:
October 2008

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raegun wrote:
October 2008

Best live show I've ever seen.

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AdelaMoon wrote:
September 2008

i got to see them perform live... Hands Down the most bitchen show ever.

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frozenchosen wrote:
September 2008

does anyone feel like, compared to make-up, weird war sucks? i would like to like them--maybe i just need to hear someone make a case.

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then_bcn wrote:
August 2008

Brilliant, worth listening to!

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akzincke wrote:
August 2008

hits you right between the eyes

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edimario wrote:
July 2008

existe uma banda de hard rock japonesa chamada Make Up... por isso criei o verbete Make Up (Japan)

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viperetta wrote:
July 2008

hip-shakingly fucking awesome.

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iconoplasta wrote:
June 2008

Save yourself was made for summer. Hot & fresh.

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danielsnalls wrote:
May 2008

If you like Make Up - try The Punches, free for download! http://www.last.fm/music/The+Punches

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Radiochronic wrote:
May 2008

ian at his peak

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inphanta wrote:
May 2008

Sensual, taut, soulful, playfully kitsch, subversive, stylish. I could go on all day...

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BettyBlue372 wrote:
May 2008

Love them!!

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sportex80 wrote:
April 2008

non-stop energy. love them.

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ArTlessAnimalS wrote:
March 2008

lovin the lp just got

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Makrelljinta wrote:
February 2008

Let me hear you say POW!

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vandaleyes wrote:
January 2008

sex-ay.

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Keiyuu88 wrote:
January 2008

@Kai_Master: Use the unicode tag for the japanese band. (ＭＡＫＥ－ＵＰ)

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